Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

Finding free and legal music

I was putting together a short video with Windows Movie Maker showing show photos from our recent trip to Butlins but realised I didn’t really want to use any of the MP3s I had. The music I had is all copyrighted and with YouTube ripping music out of videos I...

One step closer to the living room: YouTube goes widescreen

It’s interesting to see that YouTube has announced it’s move towards bringing a widescreen format to it’s website. Here’s the basic announcement: We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them....

YouTube launches full-length episodes

Interesting news this morning that YouTube has announced that they are going to start featuring full-length movies and episodes which will include in-steam video ads to keep the broadcasters happy. This seems to be a move directed to counter the threat that Hulu affords them, particularly as they have launched...

Defining Web 2.0

Came across a great video today while browsing the website of dotPerformance, a local web design agency here in the Isle of Man. It’s by Mike Wesch, an assistant professor or Cultural Anthropology. Enjoy Interesting...

Linkbait about gaming Viral Posts on YouTube

Wow, that’s a lot of keywords in one title. Anyway, Techcrunch have an interesting post by a guest blogger whose company specialises in making sure client’s media “goes viral”. Rather than focusing on the content of the video, they perform what can possibly be called Media Website Optimisation (MWO). Here’s...

Eye of the Dolphin

I love watching companies operate in a modern space and taking advantage of the Internet. I watched a trailer for Eye of the Dolphin today, which looks like a great film we probably will end up watching. The story is about a girl who goes to live with her dad....

Freedom to Flourish video

I’ve been playing with YouTube to see what it can do, and have uploaded the product of a branding exercise here in the Isle of Man. The video is called Freedom to Flourish: I like the way YouTube gives you the code you need to embed the videos you upload and...

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